My Coffee Beans is written by Sood.
What I claim, and what I do not
I do not hold a professional coffee qualification — no Q Grader certificate, no SCA credential, no barista certification. I am not claiming expertise I do not have. What I do instead is method: I read the underlying standards (the Specialty Coffee Association, the National Coffee Association, the FDA, the USDA, peer-reviewed research) and cite them directly rather than repeating secondhand claims. Where a page states an opinion, it reads like one. Where it states a fact, there is a source behind it you can open yourself. Where I could not source something, the page says so instead of guessing.
The café reviews are first-hand
The Austin café reviews on this site are visits I actually made. I went, I ordered, I paid, and I wrote up what I found — the photographs are mine. Where a review repeats something a café says about itself, that’s attributed to the café, not presented as something I verified independently.
Corrections
When a page turns out to be wrong, I say what it used to say and why that was wrong, rather than quietly rewriting it. Several pages on this site carry those corrections, and they stay there.
Affiliate disclosure
Some posts contain affiliate links, mainly through the Amazon Associates Program — as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases — and, on a smaller number of pages, Commission Junction and ShareASale. Full detail is on the Privacy Policy page.
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